Our Source It tool can usually find a feed if one is available. In some cases though, all of the feeds for a site are presented in a single web page. For instance, TechCrunch has a page with all of their feeds here: http://techcrunch.com/rssfeeds/. The Source It tool won’t work on this page – it will only capture the first feed it finds, and you can’t choose which one you want from the tool.
When you go to curate content from your training posts, it seems that you aren’t seeing the articles that you think you should. Maybe you’ve seen some posts on a blog whose RSS is in your sources, yet they don’t show up in the Training page. Or you’ve go some Google Alerts but they don’t seem to bring anything back, yet a search of the keywords shows some results.
With version 1.3 of MyCurator we expanded the Training Posts menu item in the Dashboard. This menu item lets you work with the articles found by MyCurator using the same format and capabilities as working with your regular Posts in the dashboard. One of the key new features is the ability to do Bulk Curation across many articles in your training posts at once.
Twitter is probably the most widely used content distribution system on the internet. Wherever content is published, it usually ends up on twitter. Keeping up with this manually is becoming ever harder. How much time do you spend reviewing all the tweets of those you follow, twitter lists and hashtag searches?
One of the best features of MyCurator is that it runs in the background, discovering content and pushing it to your training page throughout the day. To do this, MyCurator uses a core part of WordPress called WP-Cron which wakes up when traffic comes to your site and looks for things to do such as run MyCurator, take out the Trash and implement scheduled posts.
The problem comes when you don’t have enough traffic on a regular basis to trigger WP-Cron. This is especially true if you are just starting out, or are trying out MyCurator on a test site. Without consistent traffic, the WordPress Cron will not wake up and check for things to do, so your Every 3 Hours schedule of running MyCurator won’t happen. In fact it will tend to run when you go to the site and check it out.
Video has to be a part of any content curation practice. It is the preferred medium for many these days. It is also the focus of much new content. In this post, we will show how to set up a Topic in MyCurator to specifically target video discovery.